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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.